Origin:Terrence Knight

[Terrenceknight]

For a long time now I've been struggling on how to format this as I'm fairly scatterbrained at times and not very good at telling stories like other folk are, something I will be forever envious of *grin*. That aside I've been wanting to info dump some history about Terr from CoH since doing it through story isn't really viable for me. So instead I'll toss up information here akin to a character sheet because when it comes down to it he started off as a homebrew P&P character dating back to mid 90's.

Current plan is this first post will be dedicated to how the character first came to be and a bit of relevant information bout how the system/world worked to explain why some of his abilities work as they do, up to this point everything that he can do and has access to all leads back to this system, in my mind he had an upgrade path so to speak that I've worked with making mental notes during my years of CoH how i can integrate what I feel he would have learned over the years of being there and the timeline reset.

With that out of the way lets start with the name, unsurprisingly it uses my first name as he was a self insert of sorts as me and my old friend did that sort of gaming alot with his homebrew systems. I was real fortunate back then that I had such a creative friend when it came to game system generation. The last name came from my love of the 80's series Knight Rider. I adored the series in the 90's when it would be on the air fairly frequently and I thought Terrence Knight sounded cool so ran with it. Since he was my avatar at the time he was also my age of 15-16 when he was isekai'd by Gate.

Gate, think of him the main MacGuffin behind Terr's life being dumped upside down. An eccentric character with Reality based powers whom achieved godhood and a high rank of divinity at that so once ascended he could affect things on a universal scale. Main spheres of influence he had was Teleportation, Reality and lightening. Not evil by any extent of the imagination he wasn't entirely sane either and when you have that much power and influence and suddenly far more than a human lifespan on your hands..you tend to get bored. Closest equivalent might be somethin like 'Q' from Star Trek. He is the entity Terrence refers to when talking about 'something or someone deciding I'd be a pawn for amusement'. At this point he doesn't know the entity's identity and its keeping all information well masked, but its the source of him being dumped off on CoH universe and plucking him out of the doomed Batillion timeline and sending him back, its also a source of his directional issues and certain other skills.

The game system: Perks and Flaw based point system for character creation similar to some other pen and paper games. Used for initial stat distribution and buying character/class abilities as the game wasn't entirely freeform using classes with their own skills which could evolve and branch off to get sub abilities depending on the situations TK went through. I could purchase things that were not initially part of a class at extra cost but only if my friend decided it made sense at the time or was cool enough. Because of the setting and the fact it was just me and him Terr ended up fairly monstrous because he wasn't part of a party of characters so as a solo character he evolved to be fairly overpowered by the world's standards by the time he finally moved on. I've joked that he's akin to a shounen character and every shounen protagonist has -something- as a claim to fame, for Terrence its probably his Instinct skill. I'll go into further detail bout that when i get around to that particular section. (Cue Ultra instinct jokes here)

The world he was dropped off in first and where he lived before being transported to Primal Earth was a high fantasy world, fairly high powered at that where gods were a very real thing along with religious factions and all that jazz. First important note here is anything involving souls was heavily taboo and any being caught meddling or harming a soul was marked for execution as all the deities took souls seriously. Not to say it didn't happen but it very rare and secretive, and due to such restrictions countermeasures against such was very rare to the point of near nonexistent. This played an important part in Knights story due to what class was forced upon him.

Second part and a more 'gamey' aspect is how the very world itself enforced the rule of ownership. As it sounds owning an object, land, or even people in the case of slavery and such was enforced, thievery as punished through various means be it bad Karma, pain, curses or instant death depending on whats was being taken. A repetitively minor object that a person may not have owned long or didn't have much value to the person would only cause a minor repercussion. Attempting to steal something like a family heirloom that's been there for generations would have very brutal consequences. Of course that is entirely circumvented by just killing the owner and effectively inheriting the possessions, older magical or supernatural beings have a stronger link to the natural world and in turn the rule of possession was further enforced. Stealing from a dragon? Doesn't happen unless you wanna be a corpse by its hoard. Kill it and inherit the hoard and of course all the dragon parts that could be butchered and sold or used for magical objects.

Probably enough for now, I just needed to kick my ass into finally putting -something- up since its been bothering me for months now to do something like this heh.

Edit:didn't realize I had accidentally made a emoji in the system segment. fixed.

[Terrenceknight]

Background: (Class:None at this point, intro incident that lead him toward getting one, also at this time was unaware of certain boons and curse he was saddled with by Gate.)

Without warning Terrence was plucked from his home and had been deposited in some unknown forest with fauna that was mostly unrecognizable and just seemed foreign in shapes and coloration. However knowing he had more important matters to deal with like finding civilization if possible he picked a direction and spent a few days trying to escape said forest which was quickly discovered to have hostile humanoids so those days were spent hiding and sleep deprived out of fear.of being caught.

He found his way out and as luck(?) would have it was near a roadside tavern, however between a few days of being awake out of fear and berries he recently ate out of desperate need for sustenance that were unfortunately not entirely safe to consume he wasn't entirely of sound mind. With bad timing of approaching during a vicious brawl going on inside he was stabbed in the shoulder and in delirious bid for survival killed him, the action drawing the attention of another unscrupulous individual whom had been traveling around scouting for certain individuals that meet certain criteria.

Waking up he had found himself taken by the man to what seemed to be a tribal encampment of some sort deep within another unfamiliar forest, however even untrained as he was felt vastly different from the one he escaped from. Upon the threat of death if he didn't comply Terrence was forcefully brought into what he would later discover to be a greatly dwindling faction of warriors with this being one of the last encampments. With little choice given his current situation he complied and was thrown off guard again when given a crude spear and a small satchel of food and escorted to the gate leading deeper into the forest. When turned to ask he was shoved out with the words "This is Kreshokk the forest of the first age borne of the blood and bones of the fallen primal god Khorvak. Survive for a year if you can and you will be retrieved for proper training."
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AN: At this point there was 2 or 3 game sessions to basically training montage where Terrence picked up wilderness survival skills, his instinct and life sense along with gaining base stats to a fighter level. Ended in killing a displacer beast during a nightly rainstorm. It was a way my friend/DM revealed the early benefits of the instinct skill. Still a near death experience though.
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As told when sufficient time had passed he was escorted back to the village and spent another hard year or better of training to learn how to properly fight with some melee weapons and further improve his physical conditioning. Having to bluff his way through the training he hid the fact his body was already understanding the combat training faster than he knew was normal instinctively grasping the lessons when they were physical spars and the such.

Once the small tribe council was satisfied with his physical conditioning and thought he had grown complaint and unlikely to turn on them Terrence was blindfolded and taken to an unknown location where he was subjected to the final horrific ritual done by someone or something that rewired his brain so to speak so instead of feeling fear he'd feel further anger and madness and linked his mental state to his soul.
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AN:This is the point he finally got his class 'Soul Fury' a offshoot of a berserker class. While He did have access to a more common berserker style rage which did slowly inflict damage over time to himself and heavy fatigue when it dropped he also got the Soul Frenzy ability. Far more powerful and dangerous, inflicting the equivalent to temporary negative levels to himself every round and with unique skills attached to it allowed him to hit -way- above his weight class so to speak. This was an incredibly taboo thing he had been subject too and the reason this tribe was hunt down to near extinction. Given the nature and downsides of the ability and the taboo on soul related practices Terrence had to use it -incredibly- sparingly. Very much awesome but impractical trope.
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After leaving the forest Terrence made it a priority to learn what he could about what had happened to him but information was sparse due to the nature of the near extinct tribe so much of the 5-6 years afterwards was spent hunting clues between and often caused some of his adventures. It was early in his travels that he started learning about the boons he had been granted which helped immensely in his travels and much to his frustration learned about the curse which to this day persists in a lesser form in his bad sense of direction and due to the curse he came to realize he couldn't be someone friends or allies to rely due to the high chance of vanishing at any point which caused a shift in his mindset to try and avoid growing too attached to anyone. He'd reluctantly admit it has helped him out on more than one occasion but he'd have been much happier without!

He made ends meet by doing the occasional adventurer job of exterminations and later started doing bounty hunter work when he wasn't snooping around ruins that he'd come across with his skill set being highly apt at countering traps and secret passages. With one of his boons being storage he'd packrat away most things of interest along with an overabundance of food and survival supplies using funds earned from bounties and the treasure he did sell to stockpile goods in an almost paranoid fashion as he often found himself away from civilization for extended periods especially when secluding himself for harsh training as his skills evolved and branched out oftentimes in battle or other dangerous environments.

The final game sessions had Terrence throwing in his lot with a large band of mercenaries hired to stall a monstrous army being lead by the standard disgruntled warlord until the kingdom he was currently in could properly mobilize its army, which surprisingly went reasonably well for the first few days until the numerical advantage of the monsters wore away at the mercs causing numerous morale check failures causing more to simply retreat from battle a domino effect depleting the allied forces quickly. Having grown rather fond of the unit he was grouped in and knew they'd stick to the bitter end Terrence tried and failed to persuade them and was forced to intimidate them and force them to fall back to the nearest village in hope's they'd kill any monsters that got past him as he stayed behind.
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AN:As a solo character Terrence at this point was effectively a one man army and these session was to be our last due to RL getting in the way on my friends end with his own family starting, so this was to go with a bang.
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Finally no longer at risk of friendly fire nor anyone around to ask uncomfortable questions that he'd be hard pressed to answer he finally cut loose with everything short of his Soul Frenzy and tore into army like a force of nature. The savagery of the sudden assault and the losses that he was quickly accumulating spooked the Warlord into revealing his trump that he had been planning to save for the capital city, using a mad god's artifact he subjugated the crimson sky emperor, Valcorsorax the All Burning whom should have been in a slumber. With little option available to him as he knew what would happen if he escaped Terrence was forced to engage in a desperate battle.

It was mostly a stalemate as Valcor couldn't land a decisive hit due to the sheer scale difference between its massive body and the tiny figure in comparison and found its spells being highly resisted by Terrence, and on his end Knight couldn't deal any significant damage even with his battle frenzy and chi augmented strength or chi beams and at by this point had mostly started to stall and hopes an opportunity would eventually show itself. The stalemate eventually broke and not in TK's favor....

Having gotten used to countering the standard fire breaths with a blast of chi or a barrier Terrence had gotten ready to meet it again when he saw the head rearing back, but this time finally Valcorsorax used its true breath weapon and before Terr could react his instincts took over and autonomously to use the building blast of chi to instead to propel himself rapidly away from the location in a desperate act to evade. To this day I still remember my dm/friend telling me to 'Roll a sanity check' and while I did make the check..barely the sight of what happened was burned into Knight's memory to this day.

The title of 'All Burning' showed its true meaning when a wide swath of area where he had been just before burned away as a crimson black blaze consumed the very fabric of reality in the area burning away causing a massive rift to the great nothing beyond. Valcor wasn't affected much by the suction of the rift due to his mass and the nature of it being caused by his innate ability. Not really having the time to afford to process what he saw Terrence anchored himself to the ground as he didn't share such immunity and provoked Valcorsorax to come after him getting outside of the rift's suction range and further from the now endangered village before getting into combat again now paranoid about that breath weapon.

It wasn't long afterwards TK was bluffed into making a mistake by Valcor faking another breath attack luring Knight in and catching him, leading to making some strength checks and taking damage every turn due to the dragon trying to turn him into a snack.
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AN:At this point on the verge of death the DM turned it into a more cinematic moment and strongly 'suggested' to use Soul Frenzy which given the situation I didn't have much choice since I didn't quite wanna lose the character I've been playing for a few years. Points I would have earned up to the dragon fight were funneled into a Soul Frenzy evolution.
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His instincts forcing him to surrender his sanity and enter an evolved Soul Frenzy which Valcorsorax was utterly caught off guard for leading to its rapid demise as TK's attacks damaged and absorbed its soul the evolution letting him counteract the self inflicted spiritual damage by siphoning the damage he did. By the time Knight had regained his sanity he found himself standing on the enormous dragon corpse and saw a mostly devoured hunk of meat in his hands apparently in a maddened feral state he had tore open the dragon's chest and started eating its heart in a bid to replenish all of the energy his body burned during the conflict and the meat of a being like this worked wonders to replenish some of the self damage caused by his extended Battle Frenzy before he had entered the Soul Frenzy.

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Final AN:The campaign ended here, and it would be a couple months after this where Terrence would be taken from this world by Gate and dropped off on Primal Earth where his first round of the CoH timeline took place before the Battalion arrived. Now given how 'The World' operated with ownership and Terrence devoured and assimilated Valcor's soul, drenched in its blood and ate its heart you -know- there was going to be big consequences for this down the road.
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Edit:Figure I'll add in his Pre-Coh skills here then make a new post later for his CoH segment. I'll also be doing separate posts for a couple other things later.

Boons:These were granted by Gate at the start but certain ones took longer for Terrence to discover than others. Most of them was just to skip inconveniences as far as I can remember.

Rapid language understanding: Able to effectively understand and communicate in any language that can be mimicked by human vocal cords within minutes of exposure to them. Has a good chance of learning or getting a fairly good grasp of non verbal languages.

Divine health: Anything that can be classified as a sickness/illness or a disease will have no effect regardless of it being natural, man made or supernatural/magical. Some poisons will work however, admittedly never knew to ask back then what criteria the poison had to pass to work.

Dimensional Storage: Effectively unlimited carrying capacity though due to Gate's..quirky nature it had the condition of having to treat it like ACME stuff space. Everything put in and taken out had to be done over the shoulder so was limited to what he could manually lift over his head. An issue he had to deal with later is organizing everything in a way he could remember it, there wasn't any system in place innately to tell him what he has and doesn't have. So he was forced to do an inventory, put things in labeled crates if it wasn't a particularly memorable item then keep a book that had a list of what he has stored.

Pseudo Curse The Long Step: (Not the actual name but it didn't have one so I gave it one eventually) This was often a McGuffin tool to let the DM make Terrence travel long distances for different campaign sessions Now that I think back it usually happened after the gm rolled some dice without warning..kinda wonder if he had a number system set up linked to locations that campaigns were planned lol. It comes packed with a couple aspects...

--'Random' Teleportation in the form of vanishing mid-step,often rounding a corner of a building to only see himself in another city, passing through a doorway into an entirely different room elsewhere. It wouldn't actively put him in any immediately hostile to life environments..hostile stronghold? Yep. Lava? Not so much.

--Corrupted sense of direction: He's effectively got the Ryouga Hibiki direction sense. Navigation aids by magic or otherwise tend to act..odd when used for him. Between this and teleportation he quickly learned the necessity for self sufficiency and to try and avoid making bonds with others, not always successful but he got very used to being on his own.

--Where the Pseudo comes in: Teleportation can potentially trigger when someone whom he has a bond with is in risk of immanent death or might end up wandering right to exactly where he needs to be if there is a dangerous situation arising. (I even called out my friend on that, was told to roll with it lol so I did. At least it was always entertaining!)

Abilities in order of acquisition:Starting with ironically his most inhuman skill

Instinct:A combination of Instinct, insight, intuition which plays a hand in just about everything he does. At first it started off as a rudimentary danger sense that evolved over time to combat precog, sense intentions and intuit falsehoods even if he can't tell exactly what is being falsified or spoken half truths, will know if he's being observed even indirectly via something like scrying. Expanded to fighting without sight or other senses the first showing was against the Displacer beast.

Autonomous reactions while unaware or unconscious, can and will override his conscious actions as shown against his final battle against the dragon to avoid its breath. Furthermore grants large bonuses to learning melee combat styles often picking apart enemy fighting styles on the fly, chi training and accuracy bonuses when using ranged chi blasts. (AN: If every shounen hero had a bullshit busted skill this would be his.)

Chi savant: Originally starting off as Life Sense it was advanced to basic Chi detection by the time he left the forest, shortly after during a physical training session an accident occurred and he was forced to learn how to manipulate his own to reinforce his internals, muscles, joints, ligaments anything that was stressed during heavy exertion. Learning reinforcement opened some upgrade paths to expand upon.
--Body and skin hardening, refined over time to deal with multiple damage types through trial and error.
--Physical augmentation including speeding of reaction speeds.
--Reinforce objects held by sheathing it in his chi effectively also attaching whatever he's holding to him.
--Projecting and shaping his chi

Reinforcement Technique :Anchoring: Due to an incident involving him getting driven into the ground by a titan despite having the strength to directly block a downwards blow Terrence took that as a lesson to evolve his reinforcement of objects to expand his aura downwards over and into the ground effectively greatly expanding his surface area and anchoring himself to the surface he's on.

Chi sense evolution :Living World: Through how he trained his energy reserves he gradually came to learn how to better sense the flow of life around him, evolving to sense not just living creatures but the ambient chi in the environment and planet, the world around him becoming more like an omnipresent warm blanket with colors and shapes representing living things around him. entities like undead, golems, and the such are represented like holes in said blanket and stick out like sore thumbs to him.

Nearly inexhaustible as much like a tree so long as his feet are on the ground he'll constantly be drawing up life force from the ground below and the surrounding environment. Certain limitations include dimensional pockets that doesn't sustain life naturally, or out in space or places like the moon.

Broken Physical limitations: Due to an incident early on he was left with the ability to far surpass standard human limits well into super strength category with his muscle's, bones and the such growing more dense over time.

(AN:These skills, more specifically soul frenzy was lost post dragon soul consumption)

Berserker Frenzy: A fairly standard rage augmenting his physical attributes at the cost of health damage per round and post battle fatigue, offers additional poison resistance.

Soul Frenzy:Igniting his soul in madness his abilities scaled exponentially as he burned all that he is, both physical and spiritually for the sole purpose of destroying the foe in front of him. Every attack did physical and spiritual damage the spiritual aspect bypassing defenses and ripped away the soul of what he struck, this granted him the ability to temporarily see spiritual entities that might otherwise be unseen and more importantly slay something that might otherwise be immortal or unkillable on that particular plane like a archdemon that can only be killed on its home plane.

(AN:Soul Frenzy was to be Replaced by Several Dragon type skills but since the game ended...its all kinda dormant at the time.)

[Star Ranger4]

*thinks* You know, just this much explains so much about CoH you, even including why you took Emerald and Gamma into your protection.

In more than a few ways, CoH Terr really is like that dragon you mention!

[Terrenceknight]

The dragon comment was mostly as an example..and protection isn't quite the word I'd use with their relationship because lets be real Gamma and Emerald were made of sterner stuff than that! I've been wracking my brain since i made my first post on how to construct the second one, might just go with a character bio that one might find on a play by post role playing board or somethin *rubs chin* I probably should break up his abilities into its own segment, its a fair amount to go over. First skill alone, Instinct while worked perfectly fine when I had first acquired it as it was a fairly basic animal instinct danger sense kinda deal. It evolved and expanded greatly over the years will take a paragraph or 2 to describe.

[Terrenceknight]

It may seem absurd but it feels -good- to finally get that out of my brain and written down somewhere after so long. TK was certainly forced to be a real monster pre CoH out of necessity. I'll probably jot down more in another post later.

[Terrenceknight]

I'd like to get a bit of input if possible bout what to work on next. I'm currently debating if I should List off what skills he had access to at the end of his time in that world/game just prior to his time in CoH or wait till I'm done with the CoH segment which would likely be shorter than what I've already typed out. I'm pondering this because outside of his initial boons from Gate much of his strength is sealed away forcing him to effectively start over.

Also I dunno how annoying it was to deal with AN's throughout the background write-up it was often something I was doing to keep me on track and put some things in context. I probably should have had a pre-reader or someone help me clean it up but this was just one of those 'I need to get this out for my own sake' moments.

[Terrenceknight]

That's most everything pre-CoH done..I might have forgotten a thing or two but it just feels good to get that off my chest. Having always been a fan of Crossovers or SI's I've always dreamed of using TK in a fic, possibly nerfing his skills somewhat depending on the world. However I'm not quite delusional enough in my writing skills to think I could pull it off well *grin*.

[Terrenceknight]

Been scratchin my head over how to go about this, decided to just say 'screw it' and wing it..much like how I've been going about this so far ^_^''.

It would be a few months post the Dragon incident and Terrence had claimed Valcorsorax's hoard, much of the time was spent on the run or in hiding after i was discovered what he had done, despite what he had done the way he done it branded him a heretic due to the soul based nature of the kill. Yet he had little desire to put more blood on his over this so he chose to evade hunting groups even if he could have fought back, he had enough on his mind with the nightmares of that last battle still somewhat fresh on the brain. It was around this point however that Gate finally interfered again giving Terrence a couple days warning via a message inscribed into the ground via a stroke of purple and green lightening. With little recourse he mentally prepared himself sending out a few parcels to those he considered friends before vanishing in another lightening strike a few days later.

The Arrival:

During the teleportation Gate ended up sealing the lions share of Terrence's strength both physically and chi wise leaving him comparable to his physical condition when he first stepped out of the forest post training, sealing the soul fury abilities were not needed as assimilating the dragon's soul changed his own just enough to disrupt the ritual effects. Finally Gate also masked and forced dormancy the gradual changes that had started taking place leaving him reading as a human to methods of scanning. So when Terrence finally came stumbling out of an alleyway in a disorientated daze he found himself greatly weakened to the point of being slightly stronger than a normal person with almost no chi reserves to speak of and was very distraught but swallowed his emotions as he also quickly realized he was in a much more modern era and more importantly a hostile location with thugs on the streets with glowing green eyes trashing the place. He didn't know much of his current environment but couldn't ignore what was going on and despite being greatly weakened he still had his experience and fighting skills so he could start by knockin a few heads together and resisted the urge to go for fatal blows as he worked under he assumption of modern society frowning upon killing much more than where he had just lived, but it wasn't easy after so long.

He'd quickly come to terms of this new world he was stuck in now, helped along greatly by assistance from government branches that dealt with offworlders or others dimensional strays, thankfully his years of constant wandering and forced relocation's due to his teleportation curs so his mind was very flexible and he quickly got the gist of the situation. Once getting set up in a small apartment he'd work his way towards becoming a hero since he didn't have too many other relevant skills outside of combat even in his diminished state, of course when he went through the courses he avoided revealing certain skills beyond his greater than normal strength and minor chi manipulation mainly wanting to keep certain aspects secret. However what he did show was more than enough to get him doing work for Susan Davies in ELITE.

The Legendary:

A few months down the road found Terrence fully and comfortably adjusted to the life in Paragon City, he wasn't the most social individual outside of his hero work as he didn't have friends or family so he threw himself back into training with gusto taking advantage of vastly superior training facilities than what he had to prior so he was making up lost ground. He did however realize he needed to come out of his shell and probably join one of the numerous supergroups as by this point he was really start to feel the burden of not having familiar colleagues that he could trust and have his back for bigger tasks. So having decided that he started to paying closer attention to the word on the street during patrols keeping tabs of names to look into when mentioned in passing by villains whom he might be trailing at the time, after all in his mind your doing something right if multiple villain organizations have hits out on your group. After a few interviews with members from other Supergroups he couldn't really get along with Terrence finally found himself a fledgling member of The Legendary after meeting their leader Evangelia and trusted his gut feeling that he could trust her.

Turning towards a brighter path:

It would be near half a year of struggling with his solitary tendencies and only occasionally working together with other members of the group before Terrence would finally start feeling like he belonged there, while he didn't fully open up to anyone he started to relax and be more at ease when working with other Legendary members and was thankful that there wasn't anyone that he didn't feel like he couldn't get along with. Working alongside heroes who have been in the business for a while did a great deal to help him grow accustomed on how to handle varied situations and without really realizing it helped turn his mindset to something considerably more heroic and lenient than what he had long been used to in the prior world where killing was a necessity far more often than not. While he couldn't regain the innocence of his youth with the blood forced onto his hands he took this as a real opportunity to work towards being better, even if it meant having to work far harder to apprehend instead of dispatch.

Concerning habits:

He wasn't able to entirely shed all his habits as there was a number of occasions where he'd be called in and questioned about his work ethic with his logs showing him having dangerously low amounts of downtime, he was dangerously obsessive about picking up missions or monitoring police scanners giving himself very small amounts of downtime between that and his relentless training. Almost without fail he'd be found using the training facilities when not out doing missions working himself to exhaustion, he'd frequently just deflect questions when asked why he works so hard finding it difficult to just admit he's trying to regain what was lost. It was always a worry in the back of his mind what might happen if he was knocked out in a hostile environment and knew this was a double edged sword but he wanted to push himself to get powerful enough to greatly reduce the risk of being rendered unconscious.

Allies and coming into his own:

As the Legendary started branching out to work with allied groups most commonly Riot Force and Dojo of the White Tiger, working with martial artists and real ninja's on missions gave him plenty of opportunity to observe and understand how they manipulated their energy giving him insight on how to possibly expand on his own chi based training allowing him to make considerable strides in his own goals. His first encounter with the Sabers left him in deep thought since he couldn't sense living entities inside the power armor, he first thought that maybe the media property he recognized them from in his home dimension existed here too and some super scientist just emulated the suits as mecha. He remained silent on the subject especially when he learned there was individuals inside, had they also been the subject to dimensional transfers but had that thought kiboshed when he learned bits and pieces of how their group came to be here. Still he couldn't help but want to give them aid above and beyond what might normally be offered in missions, never did say why.

An earlier incident during a Terra volta operation revealed he could shrug off the lingering effects of radiation and used his internal energies to protect from initial burns effectively being safe from radiation based sickness, this would end up how he'd get into ta relationship with Gamma Emission and Emerald Blast, the 'Hero Sandwich' as was the running joke within the groups and it was something he treasured immensely even if Rhea's shenanigans would fluster him at times he wouldn't trade it for the world. Eventually once he started doing work for Unai he'd often be found returning to certain dimensions through portal corp, particularly one where the Banished Pantheon ran rampant becoming their Bogey Man with how often he came knocking and finally coming to the point where he felt he was very close if not finally surpassing his old self prior to Paragon but progress had slowed to an extent as he looked into further methods to push his limits.

Rejection of the Well:

When he first learned of the Well of the Furies and Incarnates in general Terrence had been equal part curious and concerned given his own past experiences with an entity turning his own life on its head leading to where he was at this point. Still if nothing else his curiosity overcame his concern and when the opportunity to find a shard of it came up he took it, he at the very least wanted to be in the presence of something like that if only briefly for experience. Upon being found the well felt his drive to get stronger and didn't hesitate to offer him a link to it giving him a small taste of its power momentarily infusing him with with godly power but found itself rebuked and the power rejected through force of will, having come this far on his own power Terrence refused to become its pawn instead stubbornly kept on his own path. Yet this meeting wasn't without a consequence as the brief influx of a godly essence was enough to rattle the proverbial seal on his power that had been imposed by Gate when he was first deposited on this world and gave him the potential to reclaim what had been locked away for so long. When he first intuited what happened the first thing he did was take a couple weeks leave from the Legendary for 'personal reasons' while he'd isolate himself at home or in quiet locations while he worked on breaking the seals down further through internal training and mental exercises.

Wearing down the blocks over time gave Terrence gradual access to all his formerly restricted strength and power output allowing him finally to have a feeling of wholeness once more that he had been missing for so very long, it hadn't been an easy process to reclaim and synch up with his old power but the end result was allowing him to keep up with the growing threats of incarnate scale foes including raids on Praetoria to take down Tyrant and his crew. However things took a turn for the worse when the Battalion came knocking and the still fledgling incarnates and other heroes were ill prepared to handle the invaders and earth found itself on the defensive.

Farewell friends/End of a timelinethis is all headcannon for me, certainly don't take it for gospel!)

It wasn't too far down the road where Terrence found himself alongside of a few of his closest allies from the Legendary holding the line keeping agents of the Battalion at bay while the remaining refugee's in the area along other members of the Legendary escorted them through. Making a snap decision he surprised his allies and with an apologetic shout hurled them through the portal as well before anyone could come back through and destroyed the portal along with the facility to prevent the invaders any chance of following them. Escaping during the carnage and worked with others he found who couldn't or wouldn't escape and harassed with guerilla tactics as straight up combat was a losing proposition. Over time he wrote down everything could learn about the Battalion both from what he's experienced and what he could gather from the dwindling number of survivors in a faint hope that maybe someone can cobble a means to go back in time to prevent such a thing for others. Many of the first to fall were incarnates as the invaders had shown themselves to be exceedingly efficient at hunting them down, probably his own saving grace was having not accepted the well's influence back then.

Finally at a point his gut was telling him something was off..yet he couldn't put a finger on what was wrong as the feeling persisted for a couple days, however what he hadn't been expecting was a stroke of familiar colored lightening to come from nowhere as there hadn't been a cloud in the sky and strike him causing him to vanish an indeterminate amount of time before the universe reset back to an earlier time but as Terrence would find out not everything was exactly the same...

(AN Final edit:Good lord I'm done finally and I feel relieved to get that out of my system which had been nagging me for sooo long.)

[Terrenceknight]

The next section won't be quite as long, mainly the introduction of incarnates, brief bit bout battalion but since the game ended before the dev's could implement it just going to mostly gloss over it and my head cannon is running with OpMeg's the universe kinda noping out and resetting things for..reasons, have liked that idea ever since it was mentioned.

[Terrenceknight]

Final edit is done. Yay! I'm already feelin better without the nagging in the back of my mind to write out Terr's bio and history as ridiculous as his life has been. Now I'm not sure I'll add too much to it at this point beyond maybe adding to his abilities list what he learned and refined during his first run through the timeline. But that can totally wait for another time so feel free to comment or ask questions if any come to mind although be gentle with criticism please.